There was a joint e-IRG-ESFRI meeting in Athens on the 2nd of April 2014. The meeting took place inside the Megaron Conference Centre, in room MC3 from 9 a.m. till 12 p.m., just before the ICRI 2014 conferenec 2-4 April. There was a standing light lunch just after the meeting in Skalkotas foyer outside the room. The meeting and the lunch was for invited people only (e-IRG and ESFRI delegates).

A joint dinner with the ESFRI and e-IRG delegates has been planned on the evening before, on Tuesday the 1st of April in " Aigli Zappeiou " (Aigli of Zappeion). It is located in the Zappeion Gardens next to the Zappeion Megaron (the official venue of Greek Presidency events and the meeting venue of the June e-IRG workshop). Aegli is facing the Acropolis and the Lycabettus Hill and is right next to the Kallimarmaro Stadium while is adjacent to Syntagma square and the Greek parliament. Aegli was the first building designed to serve the needs of the Olympic Games, the construction of which was sponsored by Greece's major benefactor Evaggelo Zappa.